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Title:
The big city [DVD video]
Added Author:
Publication Date:
2013
Publication Information:
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2013]
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
ISBN:
9781604657654
Abstract:
Set in mid-1950s Calcutta and directed by Satyajit Ray, this story follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati, who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working-class life, Ray gradually builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary Indian woman.
The coward: An aspiring screenwriter encounters a former lover, now married, when his car breaks down near her home.
General Note:
Title from disc surface.
At head of title on container: Satyajit Ray's.
DVD release of the 1963 motion picture.
From a story by Narendranath Mitra.
Special features: Disc 1: Madhabi Mukherjee (new interview with the actor); Satyajit Ray and the modern woman (interview with Satyajit Ray scholar and author Suranjan Ganguly); B.D. Garga's Satyajit Ray (1974 documentary featuring narration by Satyajit Ray and on-set footage from the making of The big city). Disc 2: Kāpurusha = The coward (1965) (a feature film by Ray; starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee; based on a story by Premendra Mitra); About The coward. Booklet features an essay by scholar Chandak Sengoopta and an interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson.
Performers:
Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Haren Chatterjee, Vicky Redwood, Jaya Bhuduri, Sefalika Devi, Prasenjit Sarkar.
Contents:
Disc 1. The big city -- Disc 2. Kāpurusha = The coward / Janus Films ; The RDB Organization ; R.D. Bansal presents ; screenplay, music, and direction by Satyajit Ray.
Technical Details:
DVD ; NTSC ; region 1 ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
Geographic Term:
Language:
Bengali
Additional Language:
In Bengali, with optional subtitles in English.
Added Title:
The coward [DVD video].
Audience:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
